UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Currently, Öykü is a full-time researcher at the Academy of International Affairs NRW, where she conducts research on the role of faith-based diaspora organizations in elections in both 'home' and 'host' countries. She is also a teaching associate at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne.

Until recently, Öykü was a postdoc/research associate at the Institute for Turkish Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen. She served as an external collaborator for the ERC-funded project “Migration, Transnationalism, and Social Protection in (Post-)Crisis Europe” at CEDEM, University of Liège, Belgium, and contributed as a country expert for Germany in the NSW Government-funded project “Building Democratic Resilience” at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (CDDGG), University of Canberra, Australia.

Öykü holds a PhD in Political Science (Cotutelle) from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Duisburg-Essen, and an MA from the Australian National University

Research interests

• External voting
• Political participation
• Political parties
• Citizenship
• Migration
• Qualitative research methods

Teaching